Breandán de Gallaí

Breandán’s professional dancing career began with Riverdance in Eurovision ‘94, and spanned 9 years. As Principal Dancer for 7 of those years, he performed in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and led the company at the opening ceremony of the World Special Olympic Games in 2003.
He has shared the stage with the principals of The Royal Ballet, Darcy Bussell and Wayne Sleep and has shared headline status with José Carreras.
He has performed live for Presidents McAleese and Robinson of Ireland. He has also performed for the late King Hussein of Jordan, the Emperor of Japan, the late Diana, Princess of Wales, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Prince Rainier of Monte Carlo and Queen Sonia of Norway.

In 2007 he returned to Riverdance as Dance Director. Breandán won a scholarship to study Ballet and Modern dance at the Gus Giordano dance academy in ‘87 and holds an honours degree in Applied Physics from DCU.

Breandán has completed “Balor”, a 90min contemporary Irish dance show to music composed by Joe Csibi. He regularly presents TV programs for RTÉ and TG4 and was external examiner for the MA in Irish dance performance in the University of Limerick from ’04 until ‘08.

He completed an MA in Ethnochoreology in 2009 and is a student once again pursuing an arts-practice based PhD in the University of Limerick, the first of its kind in Ireland.